Properly Repair Or Replace The Broken Or Defective Latch
HPD order 501 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Oct 19, 1964 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 705,400 violations under order 501, "Properly Repair Or Replace The Broken Or Defective Latch", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 155,586 are open right now, 148,145 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
155,586
Open past deadline
148,145
Closed
549,814
All time
705,400
Class C (immediately hazardous)
105,728
How order 501 is actually enforced
17,441 notices (2.5%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
4,097 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 796 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
4,332 repairs were certified after the deadline.
48,773 notices (6.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
Order 501is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005, "Duties of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.